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-- any situation will make you enlightened. People have become enlightened in every kind of situation you can imagine. The question is, if the self is dropped -- then you may be chopping wood or carrying water from the well, it does not matter. The moment there is no self -- only a witnessing, a silent watchfulness -- you are enlightened by all things.
TO BE ENLIGHTENED BY ALL THINGS IS TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS BETWEEN ONE'S SELF AND OTHERS.
To be enlightened simply means: neither I exist nor you exist. What exists is something transcendental to I and thou, something more, something bigger and higher.
THEN THERE IS NO TRACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT .... In such a small passage he has condensed so much. Each sentence could have become a scripture.
THEN THERE IS NO TRACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, THOUGH ENLIGHTENMENT ITSELF CONTINUES INTO ONE'S DAILY LIFE ENDLESSLY.
Once you have become enlightened, it is not that every day you have to remember that you are enlightened; that every morning, shaving before the mirror, you have to remember that you are enlightened; or going to the market, you have to remember not to behave against enlightenment. Once you have become enlightened your every act is automatically of awareness, of consciousness. Soon you forget all about enlightenment because it has become your very body, your very bones, your very blood, your marrow -- it has become your very being. Now there is no need to remember it.
There have been masters who have forgotten completely that they are enlightened because there is no need to remember it. Their masters have hit them on their heads. The Zen stick came into existence for very certain purposes. One of the purposes was that somebody who has become enlightened and is still sitting silently has to be hit to be made aware, "Now go away! Get on! Pick up your rented bicycle! What are you doing here?"
Enlightenment does not happen twice -- once is enough. The master hits as a reward, to remind you, "Now there is no need to be near me."
There are beautiful stories ...
Mahakashyapa became enlightened, and he would not even come near Buddha. He used to sit far away, under a
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